Absolution
(Dramatic Sound!) It was then that she realized, that the answer was there all along. When Betty tried to solve the math equation and the Ice thing meddled with it, she had a revelation. This thought was strengthen as she stared into that white void.
Betty has always been a woman of many mysteries. She's intelligent, adventurous, brave, with a temperament and knowledge about many subjects, from art to science. During her superior studies, physics and electronics were her best suit. Betty could pass the whole night trying to solve an exercise, math can be like that. The thing is that young Betty noticed patterns, little yet fundamental things no one else noticed. These observations annoyed her, how could she be the only one who could see? How could she be the only one that saw these horrifying but also cool revelations about life and possibly it's meaning? Back in the day, before the war, humans believed in one greater being, that life was only possible on earth, and that one day when they died, they'd live forever. But Betty knew better, her electronic studies and math told her something else.
All of these thoughts came back to her, and once Finn, Jake and Germain left Mars, Betty went back to her sand hole.
- Nonsense!- she said to herself and with a wave of her right wrist, Betty moved all the sand and filled the enormous hole in one swipe.
-Betty! What are you doing? You were having a significant advance! – King man baffled.
-No king man- Betty replied, her voice sounded flat, almost like a robot- This will never help me save me or Simon, it's just filling a stupid hole, a waste of time.
King man stood in place unknowing what to do or say, it was as if the old Betty was reborn, that scary, universe threatening, all confident woman was back, but with a more imposing feel to her.
-Talking about time- Betty placed her index finger on her lips as king man shook- I guess I have time, but… not quite- she uttered paying no attention to the new king of Mars until she gazed- Oh! Don´t worry, I won't try to go back in time this time, it's much simpler than that- She blinked her left eye and slowly made her way across the streets of Mars.
-Come on Betty, you know you can't change what's been and done- King man strode behind making all sorts of hand gestures as Betty walked- You're just going to hurt yourself again, what will you do then? You can't last another failure, you'll really go mad this time, come Betty, let us go back to your sand hole and…- Betty turned violently around about to explode but took a moment to breath and calmed down.
-King man, trust me, this time I know exactly what I'm doing, and the best part is, I won´t interfere with cosmic reality changing stuff- Betty grinned. King man was unsettled by that smile, he couldn't tell if it was her madness taking over or if it was a glimpse of her normal self.
-But, what if you fail? Then what? - he took his hat off and pretended to wipe it.
-Well then I guess I'll have you to give me empathy! - She let out a crazy witch laugh as she disappeared though a violet vortex.
King man sighed and noticed a paper note right where Betty had vanished, he crouched and grabbed it. He smirked when he read the note say "But I won't fail 😉 ".
-Professor, what exactly is a transducer? - Betty asked as she pushed forward her glasses.
-That, miss Grof, is an excellent question! – Doctor Itzalá pointed at her. Doc Itzalá was a woman on her 50's, about 1.50 meters of height, skinny, with short hair, always wore a tropical fedora and dressed like a neo-hippie – A transducer is a device that transforms a certain type of energy into another type of energy, you got it?
-Amm – Betty rolled her eyes to avoid contact with her teacher – Not quite, how?
-All right miss Grof, I'll amplify the answer, let me give you a basic example they taught us back in kindergarten – the acoustics Doctor moved excitedly – Your ear is a transducer…
-My ear? – Betty frowned.
-Yes dear, your ear- she said back in a proud manner.
-But… - Betty was confused.
-I'm not done! Let me explain- Itzalá grabbed her colour marker and began to draw a simple sine wave on the board and an ear on the other side- When this sound wave reaches your external ear, it concentrates right in the middle, then it reaches the membrane and this membrane is pushed back and forth by the sound wave- She moved her left hand to the right and left simulating the ear drum- What this negative and positive movement do is move these tiny bones called malleus, incus and stapes right in the middle section of the ear – the Doctor pointed at the white board.
Betty was understanding – and then? - she asked now with a sense of curiousness.
-Then, miss Grof, these three little bones begin to move back and forth transforming that signal into mechanical energy.
-Wow- Betty gasped, she was fascinated by the new information taught by her professor.
-When these bones start to bang on this other thing I drew here called "the cochlea"- she waved her hand in a childish manner as everyone let out a friendly laugh- a chemical liquid is pushed also around, turning the mechanical energy into chemical energy.
Everyone in class was silent. Itzalá looked around, focused her sight and continued.
-Then on these last section, there are these sensors, little hair like sensors, each one containing one single and different frequency, for all 20 to 20 kilo hertz of the audible spectrum. When the chemical energy interacts with these nerves, such sensors transform the chemical energy into electric energy, which is sent to the brain and then interpreted by it, and that my little ones, is how we are able to hear, and that, that is a transducer – Doc Itzalá finished. Everyone stood amazed, then she added – Microphones, also speakers, work just like you ears, at least the first part of the auditory system.
That's a memory Betty recalled while traveling through her violet vortex back to earth.
"We are nothing but electronics from another dimension" She thought deeply "and since we are ruled by energy, and our thoughts, and what we see, all transform into electric energy, then we can manipulate that energy and transform it into another type and back to its original form and so on" Betty was more and more confident as she thought about it "and that is how I will have my Simon back".
